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MAURICE K. BURGER, OF XEYV YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,478, dated April 20, 1886.

Application filed July 23, 1885. Serial No. 172,370. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAURICE K. BURGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckties,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to neck-wear; and its primary object is to so construct a neck tie or scarf that it may be easily and quickly adapted by the wearer, without any alteration in the structure itself, to accommodate itself to a standing or turndown collar.

I have shown my invention in the accompanying drawings applied to the conventional neckscarf.

In my invention the usual supporting shield is employed, in connection with which I use a curved piece, which passes through the loop at the top of the front pieces of the scarf and projects the same distance on each side of the said loop. Extending from the ends of this curved piece are the bands which are adapted to secure the scarf around the neck -ot the wearer, which bands may be folded back on the ends of the curved piece, and secured in that position when the scarf is used with a turn-down collar.

The features of novelty for which I desire protection by Letters Patent are pointed out in the claims at the end of this description.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specificatiomand in which like parts are indicated by like letters, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a scarf embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3isafront elevation showing the ends of the bands which encircle the wearers neck folded back of the scarf; and Fig. 4is a rear elevation of the same scarf, indicating the manner of folding and securing the neckbands'against the back of the scarf. Referring to the drawings, the letterA represents the front pieces of the'scarf, which in the structure shown cross each other, as indicated. f

B represents the piece of scarf material which projects up above the top of the crosspieces A, and is secured at the rear of the scarf, in the form of a loop, to the rigid shield O, which latter device preserves the shape of the structure. The edges of the cross-pieces A. are also attached at a to the shield O.

Passing through the loop B is the curved piece E, which is formed integral with the shield O, and when in position equal parts of said curved piece project from both sides of the loop, as shown. The bands D D, which encircle the neck of the wearer, are secured over the curved piece E, as shown. One of these bands may be provided with a buckle, d, as shown, for the purpose of securing the two ends together and adjusting the bands around the wearers neck.

When the scarf is used with a standing collar, the bands D D encircle the wearers neck in the usual manner, and the curved piece E being rigid, but flexible enough to enable it to conform to the collar 'upon the wearers neck, prevents the bands from twisting and assuming an untidy appearance where they fit over the loop B.

Then the scarf is to be used with a turndown collar, the bands D D are folded back against the curved piece E, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, and to hold them in this position is the function of the elastic cord 0, t

which is secured to the shield O in the manner shown, being tacked in the center, so that the bands are held separated. r

The cord b, which is in one piece with the cord 0, as shown, is provided with a ring, 6, such as usually employed for affixing a bow to the collar-button. When the bands D D are folded back on the curved piece E, their ends are passed beneath the cord 0 as well as between the cord b, so that double security is provided'against their getting out of position when once adjusted, as explained.

It will be observed that when the scarf is used with a turn-down collar, the ends of the curved piece E fit under the collar, and thuskeep the scarf well adjusted to the shape of the neck of the wearer, it being secured against accidental displacement by the ring 6, fitting over the collar-button, as already explained. A neat and accurate adjustment of the scarf to the wearers neck is also insured when any of the usual standing collars are worn with a necktie embodying my improvements.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A neck tie or scarf provided with a flexible curved piece, as E, the ends whereof project beyondthe sides of the scarf, for the purpose explained, each of said ends, being prosides of thescarf and are provided with bands, vided with a band, whereby the scarf may be as shown, and the cord 0, whereby said bands secured in position, substantially as set forth. are held-against the back of the shield of the 2. A neck tie or scarf comprising a supportscarf, substantially as set forth. [5 jug-shield, aloop, B, flexible curved piece E, Signed at New York, in the county of New whose ends project from the sides of said loop York and State of New York, this 20th day and beyond the sides of the scarf, and bands of July, A. D. 1885.

permanently secured to the ends of said curved MAURICE K. BURGER. piece E, substantially as set forth. \Vitnesses:

3. A neck tie or scarf provided with a curved J. E. M. BOWEN,

piece, as E, whose ends project beyond the IGNA'IZ BURGER. 

